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The Hollywood herd-thinning on "American Idol" began in an airport hangar Wednesday, when the show surprised the 212 hopefuls who'd survived auditions with a new fast-elimination round it called "Hollywood or Home."

"They don't even know they're singing today," Jennifer Lopez said of the contestants, who'd been bused in directly from the airport before even catching a glimpse of their hotel. "They don't know we're coming today."

But Lopez and her fellow judges, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr., did show up in the tricked-out airplane hangar -- to call names, hear songs, whisper amongst themselves, deliver ominous speeches and make...

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The Hollywood herd-thinning on "American Idol" began in an airport hangar Wednesday, when the show surprised the 212 hopefuls who'd survived auditions with a new fast-elimination round it called "Hollywood or Home." "They don't even know they're singing...

New judge Harry Connick Jr. cemented his role as tough-to-please truth teller on "American Idol" on Thursday night, as the auditions returned to Austin for a second night and then moved on to San Francisco."This is tough because it's a perfect story,"...